Winter in Montreal
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Canada: Toronto/Montreal (Jan/99)
Winter in Montreal
Visited Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) a couple of times in Dec/98 and Jan/99. Was there in business and spent one weekend in Montreal after being done with work.
I spent the free time enjoying my first experience with urban life under snow and walking downtown and the old Montreal.
Driving the Allero (cool car!) with full coverage insurance on the icy streets was exciting and somewhat dangerous (how can they drive like that on snow without any special traction?). Several times I had the opportunity to learn that breaking at the last minute to stop at light causes the car just to keep going (and sometimes turn sideways :o).
I had been to Toronto, Ottawa and some other Canadian cities before and I always felt that I was in the US. But things change as soon as you cross the border to the province of Quebec.
People speak French (and so do all the street signs), dress differently (better, that is), eat differently (much better that is).
And it is very cold.
Old Montreal is a very nice area (walkable in one full day), with good restaurants and nice shops. Very nice to take pictures. Probably very enjoyable with a partner.
Other than that, there is a casino (just another casino), the Olympic Park (have no idea on why it is interesting). I heard the metro system is efficient, but the city is small enough to cover by foot (and is not everyday I have the chance to see a city covered in snow).
I wanted to get a quick early breakfast one day and made the mistake to think that McDonalds would be it. McDonalds in Montreal are slow as if they were doing French cuisine and the food... well, the food is McDonalds.
Took a lot of B&W pictures and some of them came out very nice (well, at least I think they did).
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